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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

i've observed that the best way to make an ice dropped out from the mould easily is to use boiled water when it hasn't been frozen yet. my family uses these small bowls which used to contain mango puddings. they're not those flat ones, but those which are like bowls. i always have trouble trying to get the ice out from some. and, I find going to the sink to pour water over the ice to make it melt a bit so as to make it drop out a chore. but i noticed that those which use boiled water are able to drop out easily. how do i know? because i am too lazy to walk to the sink to fill the little bowls up with tap water so each time i have to fill them up, i use boiled water which is just before me. and when i need ice, especially on hot days, they wouldn't get 'stuck' to the bowls... ^_^ so, next time, if you want to get ice to just drop out after a knock, use boiled water!

here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
11:56 PM

Monday, May 30, 2005

oj said i had changed my hairstyle today. actually no, i just combed my hair side-parting and added a hairband. he said i looked guai. erm. i thought i look more cute than guai. =P

some people, especially men, apparently don't know that they have a very serious body odour problem. if you don't want to spray cologne or use body deodourant, perhaps you can just do me a favour by not lifting your hands high up. i know you can't smell it yourself, but please spare a thought for other people, especially people who are shorter than you.

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11:59 PM


teenagers nowadays are really superficial. was flipping through teenage and browsed through teenage pals and yours truly. never intended to read deeply into it, but some are funny...

firstly... the teenage pals for teenagers to look for pen-pals are so shallow. most of the people request for photos or pics. if you are sincere in making friends, you wouldn't care about the gender or age. they sound like they're choosing marriage partners. and i seriously doubt those who reassure that they'll 200% reply, not 100%, but 200%. are they really in need of friends? don't they go to school or sign up for courses or lessons? i think teenage should just abolish this section. it defeats the real meaning of friendship.

secondly, the yours truly section has some hilarious messages. some guys propose to the girls they like in the forum, but they put their name as anonymous. who on earth knows that it's them and how do they expect the girls to respond? the girls don't even know who it is. and there's this girl who said, "I love u plz accept me." it doesn't sound much of a problem, but it's to 2 guys. it's idiotic to let everybody knows you are stepping on 2 boats. one of the guy wrote to another girl and it's something like this:

to: tan ah mui (S1234567A)
i've been waiting for you since 1993. i hope that you'll be my stead.
from: Ho Ah Beng

you don't have to type out the ic no. there're lots of ways to make the girl know that it's for her, like through her friends or what. and since 1993?! Woa...and it's obvious that many people who sent the messages are below 18 years of age. so, teenage should have just used the space in which they said, "users below 18 years of age should seek parental consent" to publish more smses.

here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
12:01 PM

Friday, May 20, 2005


so nice. =)

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10:09 PM

Monday, May 16, 2005

oh. i love this machine. it's cheaper and it has glitter. =) i love glitter on photos.

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12:47 PM

Sunday, May 15, 2005

i was arranging my photos in my photo album today. i decided not to put my neoprints in there afterall. i'll buy another one for it. and to my horror, when i wanted to scan the photos we took yesterday into the computer, i found another two photos which i had taken during my graduation tea. i nearly died of heart attack. after spending the whole afternoon on arranging the photos, the last thing i'd ever wanted was to find out i had to re-arrange it again. *gasp* argh! no way am i going to do it today...

here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
8:14 PM

Saturday, May 14, 2005

yay!~ finally managed to do a little shopping today. it's been months since i went out. my friends and i are on our seperate paths and i still haven't integrate into my class. i guess i'll need one more year to mix well. bought a few socks and took photos with my sis. there were some weird people which we met along the way.

weird no. 1
there were a few people who seemed to be extremely childish. perhaps they didn't have any childhood at all. they kept peeping in when my sis and i were taking neoprints. furthermore, it happened twice when we took 2 different machines. that's damn unlucky.

weird no. 2
while we were on the mrt, we saw this old man who kept digging his nose. he used his right hand to dig and rubbed whatever thing onto his left hand. then he changed over and used his left hand instead. the worse part was that he used different fingers and he seemed to be enjoying it more each time he stuck his finger in. that's so gross and i can't get the scene off my mind now. =P~~~ after that, on another train, i saw another woman digging her nose AGAIN.

weird no. 3
there's this man, who seemed to be asleep while standing up, kept flapping his hand up and down.

weird no. 4
my purple toenail bled. initially, i thought i had stepped on chilli sauce and was examining it. i wondered when i stepped on sauces, but discovered later that it was bleeding. EEEKKKSS.. then i tried to press the nail to let the blood flow out. my mum said maybe it's an infection. blood oozed out. I don't like blood. They make me go weak...


here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
12:15 PM

Thursday, May 12, 2005

In an interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren said:

People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond, in a nutshell life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body - but not the end of me.I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillion of years in eternity.
This is the warm-up act, the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity, We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life: The goal is to grow in character, in Christ-likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you got to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life. No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems. If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain."But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her. It has been very difficult for her,and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people...You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of asudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for you to own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan - to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better... God didn't put me on earth just to fulfil a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
9:41 PM

Sunday, May 08, 2005

i was crapping in msn with tze and rain just now. we were chatting about tze's head rolling on the floor. she said we made her laugh till her head rolled on the floor. on the other hand, rain and i thought she was funnier. i was nearly frozen to death by their lame jokes.

here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
9:43 PM

Thursday, May 05, 2005

i was browsing through some pages and happened to find some nice pictures. these are images of candles. oh my.. who will bear to burn the ladybirds?



candles are really nice. they light up the darkness and bring hopes admist a situation of despair. i love candles. i don't know why i do. perhaps they induce a romantic feeling. it's so warm and nice. it's just a very special feeling.

here comes a piece of maple leaf =)
9:46 PM

Monday, May 02, 2005

how nice if i can have one of these...




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9:51 PM



the star.
Name: Ying*
Birthdate: 4th Jun 88

I love my frenz! :)

a typical geimini with double personality
cheerful yet grumpy
noisy yet quiet
mature yet childish
sociable yet isolated
crazy yet restrained
loves chinese songs!
loves nature!
loves going out with my besties!
loves smiles! =)

my daydream is that wang da dong will propose to me! ha*
and continue daydreaming about touring the world!


GOALS!



say smth.



visits.

::chuz::
::chuz.wretch::
::esther::
::fang.jin::
::fay::
::jane::
::jeanette::
::juliana::
::olivia.cousin::
::rain.cousin::
::rena::
::simhui::
::vic.cousin::
::xiao.penguin::
::yennee::
::chongerfei::
::cuties::
::fasco-cs::
::happytreefrieds::
::kao-ani::
::orisinal::

e-shopping! :)


turn back the colorful pages =)
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